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Build Thread Hey guys and girls... All comments, questions, queries and advice to be thrown around in here. A bit of a different build so no doubt it will come with it's complications but time will tell how it all goes. Matt

I'm really keen to run power steering in this rather then the steering box so if anyone has suggestions then thrown them my way. I have been told to look in an 86 powersteering rack and column and go from there. Sound right?

Brought some Tanabe Subaru coilovers off trademe for $100 and started stripping them down to make my own coilovers. Remove the sleeves, springs, hats and camber plates and I will use them all on my setup. Camber plates are getting re drilled to suit my setup at the moment. I will drop the car a further 20mm by using the camber plates too as the standard top hats are really deep. Now following seedy Als post on coilovers I stripped my standard ones and cut around the bottom spring keeper I them brought some brand new Monroe ae92 corolla inserts that were 55mm shorter then original so the standard strut housing will be cut down to keep the new inserts captive Tidied up the struts by grinding off the rest of the bottom spring keeper Also brought some series 5 RX7 4pot callipers yesterday so they are on their way too so I will be looking into setting those up at some stage.

As I was looking on trademe another wagon popped up but it's a 79 (same shape) and it looked to be in much better condition then my yellow one so money was traded hands and freight organised and I got it transported from Christchurch to Wellington. It has no engine but it was complete otherwise and it came on some 13x7hotwires with decent tyres too I had now sold my turbo corolla so I went a bit mental buying parts... 2jzge - 82k, loom, auto gearbox, ecu -$700 Shortened hilux rear end set up for 4link Pulled these out of CHCH two weeks ago and got tyres on them yesterday too...14x7 Volk Racing Wheels

Found a guy on trademe with a sedan shell in his lawn. He cut the front end off and sent it up to me. Cost me $150 so I definitely can't complain. Completely rust free too. Well, surface rust but that's nothing. Was thinking about sticking this front on as it hasn't been molestered at all! Previous owner also took a hit in the front right hand side and this is how he tried to counter things... Scored a complete interior for $40 from a guy in Paeroa that wrecked a wagon he found in the bush.

DISCUSSION THREAD Hey everyone, I recently joined oldschool but have been trolling here and there for the last few years. As my turbo ae100 corolla wagon was nearing completion I spyed a bright yellow 1980 corona on Hustle Live and I had to have it. I parted with some stereo equipment and $400 and I went over to Wainui to pick it up. As soon as I got it home I started stripping it down to see what I was going to be working with. Eye moved the driveshaft as it was banging around and I took the fixed backs out that were pretty much welded to the floor Fuel lines running through the middle of the car.... Car was built for skid and originally had a RB20det in it Front had been hacked up to fit a huge radiator and to clear room for the intercooler piping. The passenger footwell had also been smashed up with a hammer to make room for the wastegate to clear... Turned out they welded the bumper to the car rather then put four bolts in.. Battery tray behind passenger seat Removed rear windows and found rust so that was repaired Crack in bog around fuel filler... As I removed it I realiser the fuel filler and surrounding area was rusty so that was cut out Started pulling it all back Started to regret pulling it all back as I found previous repairs and more and more rust All the way under the dash it was like this. Has rusted through the rain gutter.... Now what do I do!!!

Hey everyone... Now I know this is a very odd request but I want to do some mounting in my corona with my 2jz to see how much room I have and to also see if I am going to need to increase the size of the gearbox tunnel. I will be running a r154 eventually but I don't have the $2800 to buy one brand new at the moment. If some one has one lying around (highly doubt it) or even an a dummy box I would love to borrow it. I will compensate however need be. I'm located in tawa and the car is in waikanae. I don't mind traveling to get it. Matt